On Apr 12, 2:59 am, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article > <57065c62-2024-47b5-a07e-1d60ff85b...@y10g2000prc.googlegroups.com>, > > tleeuwenb...@gmail.com <tleeuwenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Is there anyway to begin a thread and execute a finite number of lines > >of code, or a finite amount of time within it? > > >For example, say I create three child threads and I want to guarantee > >equal timeshare between them, can I specify a quanta (say 400 LOC > >although I know that is pretty small) to execute in each one in turn? > > You have extremely coarse-grained control with sys.setcheckinterval(). > However, there is no guarantee which thread will pick up control after > each context switch, so one thread might get more than its share.
Thanks for your reply! Will add that to my reading list. Cheers, -T -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
